Production Supervisor

Job Description SummaryThe Production Supervisor leads and engages employees and leads daily management to drive sustainable, continuous improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Productivity, and meeting Production Plan goals. Effectively facilitates through conflict to ensure listening and adherence and support differences of opinions. Champions an environment of teamwork, problem solving, and engagement. Effectively communicates requirements using a team approach to accomplish goals and objectives of the business. Executes standard operational/technical tasks such as hourly timecards and performance conversations with employees while utilizing Flight Deck and Daily Management practices. Supports development and execution of training programs implemented through standard work practices. Willing to learn and use continuous improvement tools and methodologies.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Leadership: Direct work on the shop floor; ability to influence decision making with or without authority, facilitate groups with diverse perspectives, bring teams to agreement. Foster an environment of learning and problem solving.
• Communication: Interpersonal skills that build productive relationships and influence others, both within the business and across organizations. Ability to interact with all levels of the business (senior leaders to working teams), exceptionally good listening skills, able to present complex or new insights with clarity and simplicity.
• Teamwork: collaborate effectively with others to achieve common objectives.
• Align with Team Leads and set employee expectations for the day.
• Oversight and management of front-line manufacturing employees.  Completes time keeping, tracks and approves OT and PTO.
• Strategically plans production and works through issues by cross-training and maximizing coverage for PTO where production needs.  Assesses need for OT.
• Hiring and developing team members, follow ups, supporting hourly team.  Facilitating coaching conversations.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.
• In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• May use prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
• Ensure the shipment goals, business goals, customer requirements and production plans are achieved by partnering with Production Control.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma/GED with at least 7 years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment)
• Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment
• This role requires use of technical data subject to U.S. Government contract restrictions and this posting is only for U.S. Citizens.  GE will require proof of status prior to employment.

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated Experience working in manufacturing or repair & overhaul environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to influence others and lead small teams
• Demonstrated skills using GE Flight Deck, Six Sigma, or Lean
• Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact
• Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously
• Effective problem identification and solution skills
• Proven analytical and organizational ability
• Team builder
• Repairman certificate or Airframe/Powerplant Certified
• Engineering or Quality experience

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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